Maryellen C. MacDonald
Professor
Ph.D. 1986, University of California-Los Angeles
Email: mcmacdonald@wisc.edu
Research Interests:
- Human language comprehension, language production and the relationship between these skills
- The role of experience in language processing in adults and children
- The relationship between language processing and verbal working memory abilities
- Language processing abilities in healthy aging and in Alzheimer's Disease
REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS
MacDonald, M.C. & Christiansen, M.H. (2002). Reassessing working memory: A comment on Just & Carpenter (1992) and Waters & Caplan (1996). Psychological Review 109, 35-54.
MacDonald, M.C. (1999). Distributional information in language comprehension, production, and acquisition: Three puzzles and a more. In B. MacWhinney (Ed.), The Emergence of Language. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Haskell, T.R. & MacDonald, M.C. (2005). Constituent structure and linear order in language production: Evidence from subject verb agreement. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition 35, 891-904.
Haskell, T.R., MacDonald, M.C., & Seidenberg, M.S. (2003). Language learning and innateness: Some implications of compunds research. Congitive Psychology 47, 119-163.
MacDonald, M.C., Almor, A., Henderson, V.W., Kempler, D., & Andersen, E.S. (2001). Assessing working memory and language comprehension in Alzheimer's Disease. Brain and Language 78, 17-42.
